Button for shirts, &amp;c.



No. 667,574. Paiented Feb. 5,!90L

C. A. PIERSON. v

BUTTON FOR SHIRTS, &c.

(Application filed Jan. 8, 1899) N0 Model.)

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UNrrnn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. PIERSON, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK H. LARTER, HARRY C. LARTER, AND HALSEY M. LARTER, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON FOR SHIRTS, 8....

I SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 667,574, dated February 5, 1901.

Application filed January 3, 1899. Serial No. 700,914. lNo model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- side or back of the head by soldering or any Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. PIERSON, other means common in the jewelers art and a citizen of the United States, residing at Newcomprising a hollow wire bent at right angles ark, in the county of Essex and State of New at a point a little back from the head to form 5 Jersey, have invented certain new and useful a barrel 1) and post 19 the said post support- Improvements in Buttons for Shirts, 850.; and ing the head and said barrel lying in a plane I do hereby declare the following to be afull, substantially parallel with the plane of the clear, and exact description of the invention, head, as will be understood, and the bend be-. such as will enable others skilled in the art to ing suitably rou nded orcurved. At said bend to which itappertains to make and use the same, in the shank the latter is open at the outer reference being had to the accompanying side, as at 17 Fig. 2, the opening being of a drawings, and to letters of reference marked size adapted to permit the outpassage therethereon, which form apart of this specificathrough of a sliding hollow section 0, the said tion. opening being axially in line with the barrel 15 This invention relates to certain improve- 1) of the shank. The section 0 when projectments in that class of shirt-buttons representing, as shown in Fig. 2, taken in connection 5 ed by the one shown in Patent No. 616,057, with the barrel b, forms a shoe for the butdated December 13, 1898, the objects of the ton, which cooperates with the head in holdpresent improvements being to secure ining the overlapping portions of the garment zo creased spring accommodation and a longer together, as will be understood. The said projection for a certain piston or sliding sliding shoe-section c is of a diameter subshoe-section, and thereby enable the button stantially equal to the diameter of the interior to be employed with greater security not only chamber of the barrel 1) and is thus adapted to in shirts having the usual eyelets for studs, slide in said barrel with a positive movement.

25 but also in shirts having the ordinary long The inner end of the section a is open, while buttonholes, and to secure other advantages the outer end is partly closed, a small opening and results, some of which may be referred being formed therein in the preferred conto hereinafter in connection with the desoripstruction to receive the end of a rod (1, the tion of the working parts. said rod carrying eXteriorly thereon a spring 0 The invention consistsin theimproved but- 6. The said rod d is fastened to the closed ton for shirts, &c., and in the arrangements outer end of the section 0, being reduced to and combinations of parts of the same, all subform ashoulder d to engage the inner side stantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and of the section cat the end thereof, the reduced finally embraced in the clauses of the claim. portion of the rod fitting the perforation and 35 Referring to the accompanying drawings, being adapted to be upset at the extremity to in which like letters of reference indicate corform a head d whereby the said rod d is responding parts in each of the several views, firmly fixed to the section 0. I may employ Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved any other method of fastening the rod to stud. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the the section as convenience, circumstances, or

0 same on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a transconditions may dictate. The said rod d is verse section taken at line 00, Fig. 2; and Fig. considerably longer than the section cand ex- 0 4 is a detail view of the sliding shoe-section tends longitudinally therethrough and out and spring detached from the head and shank into the barrel 1) and through the same, the of the button. said barrel being also partly closed at its pro- 5 In said drawings, a indicates the head of jecting end and provided with a small perfo the button, which may be ornamental or plain ration of suflicient size to allow the outpasor may furnish a setting for a stone or jewel sage therethrough of the said rod cl. At or in any ordinary manner. near its extremity the said rod is provided 1) indicates the shank, fastened to the inner with a peripheral groove d and thereat receives a conical end cap f, the said cap being of sheet metal shaped or formed at its base, as at f, so as to enter the said peripheral groove under pressure and be firmly fixed to the rod. The said conical cap fforms a fingerknob and is pointed at its outer extremity to facilitate its passage through the buttonhole, and at its base is made broad to permit of easy grasping by the hand, the said cap serving as a finger-piece by means of which the rod may be drawn lengthwise through the barrel against the power of the spring e. The outer movement of the rod when thus drawn by the fingers against the spring is limited by the engagement of the inner end d of the section cl with the end Walls 01 of the barrel, the interiorend of the barrel 0 being sutficienly open to allow the free passage of the spring 8 therethrough. The spring 6 is thus permitted to hear at one end against the end walls at the closed projecting end of the section 0 and against the interior end walls (i at the oppositely-prejecting end of the barrel. I thus am enabled to employ a spring of considerable relative length, and, furthermore, am enabled to employ a section 0 of considerable projection when in its normal projecting position, and thus the shoe as a whole may be given increased length and the button secured within an ordinary buttonhole without liability of escape.

While I have shown one way of construct-- ing the improved button, it is evident that the same maybe modified in the construction without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention, and therefore I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself by the positive descriptive terms herein employed, excepting as the prior state of the art may require. Furthermore, I may dispense with the head of the button and furnish the market with the spring-back, comprising the L- shaped tubular main part, consisting of a barrel and post, to which the head maybe fastened by the person purchasing the said spring-back, the tubular sliding shoe normally forming a prolongation of the barrel and the spring being inserted in the barrel and sliding shoe, on a stem fastened to said sliding shoe, all in the manner already sulficiently described.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. A button comprising a head, a shank having a post connected to said head and a tubular barrel disposed at right angles to said post or approximately so, said barrel having one end, where it connects with the post, open, and the other end also open and provided with a bearing for a spring, a hollow shoe-section slidably arranged in said barrel and serving as a casing for a spring, said slidable shoe-section having its end toward the post end of the barrel provided with a spring-bearing, a stem or rod in said shoe section or casing secured to said casing at the bearing therein for the spring and extending from said spring-bearing out from the barrel at or near the spring-bearing of said barrel, and a spring encircling said rod or stem and having one portion resting within the slidable shoe section or casing against the bearing within the same, and the remaining portion of the spring, in its normal position, projecting from said casing into the barrel and resting against the springbearing thereof, substantially as set forth.

2. A button comprising a head, a post connected therewith and a tubular barrel at a right angle to said post, or approximately so, said barrel having one end, where it connects with the post, open, and the other opposite end also open and provided with a springhearing, a hollow or tubular shoe section or casing slidably arranged in said barrel, having one end closed and interiorly providing a springbearing, a stem or rod in said barrel, secu red. at one end to said closed end of the shoe section or casing and having the other end projecting through the barrel and through the open end of said barrel having the spring-bearing, a knob on said stem or rod, and a spring having one end resting against the spring-bearing within the slidable shoe section or casing, and one portion of said spring arranged in said casing and the remaining portion of the spring in its normal position projecting from said shoe-section into the barrel and resting against the portion of the barrel having the spring-bearing, substantially as set forth.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a spring-back for a button or stud, composed of an angular part of bent tubing comprising a post and barrel, the latter having a spring chamber and a spring abutment or hearing therein, a-tubular sliding shoe forming normally a prolongation of said chamber and having a closed end opposed to said abutment, at long spiral spring inclosed within said chamber and shoe, and a stem within said spring attached at one end to said closed end of the shoe and provided at its other extremity with a knob protruding from the barrel, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of December, 1898.

CHARLES A. PIERSON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, C. B. PITNEY.

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